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Bronx Councilman Oliver Koppell has taken the next (baby) step towards repealing the city's term limit laws, promising to introduce a bill proposing to extend them within weeks. Previously the Council were waiting for Mayor Bloomberg to confirm he would sign such a bill into law. But Koppell is ready to take the lead in extending the eight-year limit to twelve; he tells City Room that limits “cut off people’s careers in politics, which makes no sense.” He would like to see Speaker (and potential mayoral candidate) Christine Quinn introduce the bill, but says he will go forward with it if she does not. The Council would then have sixty days to decide whether to send the bill forward to the mayor, but Koppell claims such a bill could pass through Council "within twenty-four hours."
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It makes sense because it puts an end to a corrupt politician with a grip on apathetic voters. Sometimes you gotta protect democracy from itself.
Just because the current one isn't corrupt, doesn't mean the next one won't be.
I wish we had term limits in the House and Senate. Both are starting to ressemble the House of Lords. Let them do their 4 - 6 years then go back out into the real world and try to eek out a living in the private sector like most of us. That goes for both parties.
they're all crooked - if they want to overturn the law, then make the new one effective starting two terms from now, going forward. this would eliminate some of the stink of impropriety.
They can't repeal it. We voted for it. Aux barricades!
Politicians introducing legislation for a raise is one thing. But introducing legislation to extend your term limits because your ego has been damaged is another.
Isn't that the point, to prevent politicians from making a career of becoming dead weight on the city council?
this is simply disgusting, but would you expect anything less from our city council? they are completely worthless...
the people voted for it twice. The politicos will now repeal it anyway. Another example of why any talk of democracy is utter bullshit. A million peoples votes don't count as much as one person with billion dollars.